Besides the usual small game, antelope or ravine deer, and nilgai " ( Boselaphus tragocamelus ) " used to be common in the plains, and leopards, sambar deer " ( Cervus unicolor ) ", and wild hog were found in many of the hills.
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Chital ( Axis axis Erxleben ), sambar ( Cervus unicolor Kerr ), gaur ( Bos frontalis Lambert ), nilgai ( Boselaphus tragocamelus Pallas ), wild pig ( Sus scrofa L . ), barking deer ( Muntiacus muntjac Zimmerman ) and chowsingha ( Tetraceros quadricornis Blainville ), are the wild ungulate species found in the study area.
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The forests used to provide habitat for three prominent mammal species, the Bengal tiger ( " Panthera tigris tigris " ), the Indian elephant ( " Elephas maximus indicus " ), whose populations have recently dwindled and may have even become locally extinct, and the nilgai antelope ( " Boselaphus tragocamelus " ).